USA Today, by Christopher Cann and Jorge L. Ortiz: If only it were true that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, at least when it comes to the weather.
Sin City reached a high of 111 degrees Thursday, making it the earliest recorded date Las Vegas has ever gotten to such a scorching temperature, the city’s National Weather Service office said. But the record-setting numbers are not the sole purview of the gambling mecca, as the harshest part of summer has arrived in California and the Southwest two weeks before the season even begins.
The National Weather Service lists several large metro areas in the region as being exposed to “Max HeatRisk” Thursday and Friday. Las Vegas is in the “extreme” category, and Phoenix, Fresno, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, just below at “major.” Las Vegas and Phoenix are predicted to surpass 110 degrees.
“Some areas of hazardous heat may persist into next week,” the weather service’s prediction center said. “Record-breaking daily high temperatures are forecast in portions of interior California, the Great Basin, and the Southwest.”
Thursday afternoon highs of over 100 degrees and even more than 110 in some areas were forecast across California, much of which was under excessive heat advisories. The weather service urged people to avoid laborious outdoor activity at the hottest times and not to leave children or pets in unattended vehicles.
“Car interiors will reach lethal temperatures in a matter of minutes,” the weather service said.
The threats stretched across a vast swath of the West. In Utah, dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures from 104 to 108 degrees were expected Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, parts of Nevada could see temperatures as high as 114 and 116 degrees. Southern Texas, which has been roasted by unseasonably hot conditions for weeks, is forecast to reach triple digit temperatures through the afternoon, including in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley.
Prophetic Link:
“The time is at hand when there will be sorrow in the world that no human balm can heal. The Spirit of God is being withdrawn. Disasters by sea and by land follow one another in quick succession. How frequently we hear of earthquakes and tornadoes, of destruction by fire and flood, with great loss of life and property! Apparently these calamities are capricious outbreaks of disorganized, unregulated forces of nature, wholly beyond the control of man; but in them all, God’s purpose may be read. They are among the agencies by which He seeks to arouse men and women to a sense of their danger.” Prophets and Kings, 277.1
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